MrsBlue and I were shedding our coats and such last night after returning
from picking her up at the train station when we heard an odd noise from the
living room. Upon investigating, we found Hudson the wonder dog licking at a
bowl of M&Ms I had indiscriminately left on the coffee table. She's usually
pretty good about avoiding such temptations, but as we've discovered on a couple
of previous occasions, our Airedale has a weakness for chocolate, which is
scary, since chocolate is poisonous to dogs. Luckily the amount of cocoa in an
M&M is low enough that she could probably stomach a couple (not that I'm eager
to test this), but even more luckily, a dog trying to discreetly pluck peanut M&Ms from a small bowl with a mouthful of giant fangs is
trying to pull off a tough
trick (picture Winona Ryder in that Aliens movie trying to pick up a shot glass
wearing boxing gloves), so she could only manage to lick some candy coating before
being caught in the act. So in the end, she didn't make herself sick, all she
did was manage to ruin a bowl of M&Ms… oh, who am I kidding? I ate them.